Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-22

Alpine cQOl concert OF April otn Will DC
given an opportunity TO make seie 1tIons.
This will be the choice musical enter
tainment of the season.
The Yankton Turnverein at its annual
meeting last night elected the following
officers: o. Hamiester. president; j.
Siebert, vice president; e. zienert, re-
cording secretary; 81. Tammen, CORES
pondlng secretary; O. Wallbaum, treas
urer; O. Hacker, cashier; A. Branch
first turnvart; VIM. Bader. second turn.
vart; Geo. Baumann, Fred Pfotenhauer
and Paul Hamann, trustees. The So
oiety is in q healthfui financial condI.
ton.
H.F. Jencks yesterday refused an offer
OF $4,000 Tor the ifty-two acre tract
known as the Jencks market garden.
This tract is deliberately improved and
has an artesian we'll upon it, but to the
party making the offer these improve
ments are not particularly valuable, as
his design was to plat the tract. 1t
lies in one of this most desirable LOCALE
ties and will always be valuable, either
poses.
Guy Weber, treasurer and manager of
the st. Andrews Bay land company, of
Florida, was arrested in CINCINNATI,
Ohio, on the 18th inst, on a charge of
using United States mails by send
ing out circulars and matters designed to
defraud. The company has been selling
lots in Florida at ST. apiece. As some OF
the booming capitalists of Yankton have
invested wealth in the ST. Andrews
scheme this action on the part of the
authorities is of local interest.
A stranger looking the city over yes
terday with a view to securing some lots
was told by the real estate agent who
accompanied him that the Central Paci-
fc was surveyed into Yankton a few
years ago. Eyes" he replied carelessly,
81 know it. That road is coming east
soon." At the time the Central Pacific
| was surveyed in here it was told that it
was to form a connection with the Hi
nois Central. There are q great many
straws in the air this spring.
The Sioux Falls Argus states that the
Rock Island company has formed a pro-
ject to parallel the Msnitoba's Duluth &
Denver line by building from Beaver
Falls, Minnesota, to Sioux Falls and the
l i-Ta,oro ~ -, kLak ~ ,v,AanIa- IN Onrf1nr1o
to occupy the territory of the Duluth
through to Yankton. MFR. Hill, hearing
| of this, telegraphed his compliments to
| President Gable, of the Rock Island, and
told him '.the Rock Island might par
| allei the Manitoba from Duluth to Dem
yer if it wanted to, but the Duluth road
was going through all the same The
Rock Island will probably stand ont of
the way.
A Yankton bnomist is drawing a map
of the city which will strike the public
as being about the proper SIZE when 1T
lie presented for public gaze. The new
map fixes the east boundary of the CITY
at the Jim river, the north boundary at
Beaver creek and the west boundary at
the section line Six miles west Of Broad.
way. He is prevented from extending
the southern boundary only by the fact
that after crossing the Missouri river he
invades Nebraska, which he comedies
does not belong to Yankton. This map
maker owns q quarter section OF land
just beyond the asylum aud on the new
map this quarter section is In the heart
of the city.
@. j. B. Harris. mayor OF this city,
Frustrated Alderman Grove, of the first
ward. with q single expression at the
meeting of the city council last night.
Mr.. Grove, in opening an address, made
the declaration that the mayor and the
clerk had condemned the present city
council as a set of ignorant men, by fix
ing their signatures to the address which
follow VS. the names of the nominees of the
business mems ticket. MIR. Grove rather
started his hearers by making this state
ment FIRST, hut he raised the ire of his
honor when he repeated it several times.
and when the alderman had taken his
seat the mayor quietly refuted the state.
ment. saying that the municipal
ticket address was intended for nc
one in particular. "But if the coat ftt
you, put it ON, +" remarked he,
i. o. %. Il.
L L ~ So
A special meeting of Dakota lodge
No. /, 1. o. o, f. for work in he | de
gree, will be held on Tuesday evenini
March 22nd at 7;30.
WaRted-To rent q SINAI! farm with
in 8 miles of Yankton with at least l,
acres under cultivation.
e. 81. THOMPSON, Norris Block.
For Sale-Msmmoth seed oats.
G. w. ROBERTS.
WHY WILLYOU cough when Shiloh
Cure will give immediate relief. Price l
cts, SO cta. and 81, Sold by DR.. Wander
! hule.
}, A line of spring jacket